Obama IS Islams’ long awaited Messiah (Mahdi)

September 02, 2010 By: Freedom Fighter Category: Uncategorized

The Muslim Mahdi or the Messiah, and his return to the world as a person of Universal heritage, and a world leader instead of a leader of a nation has been a basis for hope in the
Muslim faith for centuries. Many now believe President Obama is that Mahdi and source of world hope.

Obama worshipers have declared him to be the same as the Islamic Messiah or Mahdi is defined in the holy Koran and in some instances the equivalent to the anticipated return of Jesus.

Chris
Matthews NBC reporter Obama the
Messiah “This is bigger than Kennedy. . . . This is the New
Testament.” | “I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don’t
have that too often. No, seriously. It’s a dramatic event.”

E Others have gone further and declared Obama to be Jesus himself or the returning Messiah.

· Louis Farrakhan Obama
the Messiah “You are the
instruments that God is gonna use to bring about universal change, and that is
why Barack has captured the youth. And he has involved young people in a
political process that they didn’t care anything about. That’s a sign. When the
Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely
speaking.” http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1099919/louis_farrakhan_barack_obama_is_the.html?cat=9

The
world Marxist Media Minion press has added fuel to the flames by
supporting the belief Obama is a holy man greater than Jesus Christ. The
following site has more quotes from world leaders and news media
personnel about Obama the Messiah. http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com/

· Politiken (Danish
newspaper) TUESDAY,
DECEMBER 29, 2009

“Obama
is, of course, greater than Jesus”

He is provocative in insisting on an
outstretched hand, where others only see animosity.

His tangible results in the
short time that he has been active – are few and far between. His greatest results
have been created with words and speeches – words that remain in the
consciousness of their audience and have long-term effects. He comes from
humble beginnings and defends the weak and vulnerable, because he can identify
himself with their conditions.

And no we are not thinking
of Jesus Christ, whose birthday has just been celebrated - - but rather the
President of the United States Barack Hussein Obama. [...]

If
such a comparison were to be made, it would, of course, inevitably be to
Obama’s advantage.

Today,
his historic Health Reform is being passed through the American Senate – a
welfare policy breakthrough that several of his predecessors have been unable
to manage. [...]

On the other hand, we have Jesus’ miracles that everyone
still remembers, but which only benefitted a few. Obama is, of course, greater than Jesus
– if we have to play that absurd Christmas game. But it is probably more
meaningful to insist that with today’s domestic triumph, that he has already
assured himself a place in the history books – a space he has good chances of
expanding considerably in coming years. Source: “Obama
greater than Jesus” Politiken Editorial [Denmark]
December 29, 2009.”

The
Koranic definition of the Mahdi and conditions related to his return to
the world are shockingly similar to what Obama the Marxist Media
minions and world Muslims have defined as miracle worker Obama the
Messiah. The expectations of great hope and spiritual guidance by the
new Gandhi miracle worker Obama has been so great that Obama now shares
the mass hysteria and psychosis.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/02/obama_the_messiah_of_generatio.html

·
Obama the Messiah of Generation Narcissism February 22, 2008 By Kathleen
Parker

WASHINGTON
– Much has been made of the religious tenor of Barack Obama’s presidential
campaign. Reports of women weeping and swooning –
even of an audience applauding when The One cleared his proboscis (blew his
nose for you mortals) — have become frequent events in the heavenly realm of
Obi-Wan Obama.

His rhetoric, meanwhile, drips with hints of
resurrection, redemption and second comings. “We are the ones we’ve been
waiting for,” he said on Super Tuesday night. And his people were glad.

Actually, they were hysterical, the word that
best describes what surrounds this young savior and that may be more apt than
we imagine. The word is derived from the Greekhystera, or womb. The
ancient Greeks considered hysteria a psychoneurosis peculiar to women caused by
disturbances of the uterus.

When
Obama identified himself as a world citizen and the worlds president he
was fulfilling the Islamic prophecy of the Mahdi. Obama is the only
person of mixed heritage and born of Muhammad as prophesied. His father
was born a Muslim as Obama was.

· Senator Obama “The burdens of global citizenship continue to bind us
together. Partnership among nations is not a choice; it is the one way, the
only way, to protect our common security and advance our common humanity.”
Senator Obama,
“”A World That Stands as One,” Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany,
July, 2008

This
report is chilling and explains why the Muslim world is so intent on
taking over the USA government with the aid of Obama. It makes no
difference if the prophecy is pure fantasy or not. It becomes self
fulfilling when a madman believes he is the chosen one the Messiah of
Islam. It becomes more fulfilling when over a billion Muslims confirm
that madness and accept him as the Messiah, the Muslim Mahdi. When Obama
the Mahdi speaks the Muslim world listens.

Jeremiah Wright traitor “God bless America? No No No, God DAMN
America!” Muslim turned Christian, and President Obama religious mentor for over
20 years. “

Obama From Audacity of Hope ’I will
stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.’

This
report title Chapter Four had no intent of defining Obama as Allah’s
chosen one but the belief of Obama as a Muslim with delusions of
grandeur and one world order fit the definitions for the Mahdi to a
tee.

Not only is
Obama a Marxist Muslim but he is crazy as hell. He believes he is the
Mahdi, the Messiah and is acting on that belief.

·
Barack Obama Messiah “This
was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began
to heal.” announcing his election to the office of president.

This
comparison of what Obama thinks he is and Koranic revelations is
horrifying when one considers other past despots often had similar
delusions of grandure and divine guidance in their leadership decisions.
Regardless of theological belief it is important to note the words of
Obama indicate his belief in his designated status as the world healer,
the chosen one, the Messiah the spiritual guru that will heal the
world.

It is his
distorted view of reality we all have to live under. It is his distorted
view of government by the anointed one that we must fight against at
all costs. We can not let our nation fall into the hands of any
religious governmental control, but most importantly we can not cede our
nation to the radical Islamonazi murderous evil plaguing the world.
Obama is the reason our founding fathers insisted on freedom of and from religion as a tenet of our constitutional law.

The
following has my notations and added Obama quotes starting with MWL:
they are not a part of the original writing. You can go to the
referenced web site for the unaltered Chapter Four.

This Chapter
four establishes the Islamic understanding of who the Mahdi will be and
what he will appear as. It is the same as the Obama brand developed by
this skillful politician over a lifetime of smiling and doing the “step
and fetchit two step” to deceive his white honky oppressors. He has
repeatedly talked about the need to appear non threatening to white
folks so they wont be scared of the black man.

Chapter Four

http://www.answering-islam.org/Authors/JR/Future/ch04_the_mahdi.htm

The Mahdi: Islam’s Awaited Messiah

Among the Major Signs, the most anticipated and
central sign that Muslims are awaiting is the coming of a man known as, “The
Mahdi.” In Arabic, al-Mahdi means, “The Guided One” ¹ He
is also sometimes referred to by Shi’a Muslims as Sahib Al-Zaman or Al-Mahdi
al-Muntadhar which translated mean “The Lord of the Age” and “The
Guided/Awaited One.” The Mahdi is the first of the Major Signs.
This is confirmed by Ibn Kathir, the renowned Muslim scholar from the eighth
century:

After the lesser signs
of the Hour appear and increase, mankind will have reached a stage of great
suffering. Then the awaited Mahdi will appear; He is the first of the
greater clear, signs of the Hour.²

The coming of the Mahdi is the central crowning
element of all Islamic end-time narratives. So central to Islamic
eschatological expectations is the coming of the Mahdi, that some Muslim
scholars do not even refer to “the Minor Signs” as such, but instead, refer to
them as, “The signs accompanying the Mahdi”. ³ While there
are some variations of belief between the Sunni and Shia’ sects of Islam and
while certain quarters of Sunnis reject him altogether, general belief in the
Mahdi is not a sectarian issue within Islam, but is universal among most
Muslims. According to Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, chairman of the
Islamic Supreme Council of America:

The coming of the Mahdi
is established doctrine for both Sunni and Shi’a Muslims, and indeed for all
humanity ⁴

Ayatullah Baqir al-Sadr and Ayatullah Murtada
Mutahhari, both Shia’ Muslim scholars in their book, The Awaited Savior,
describe the Mahdi this way: (

Senator Obama the world citizen “If you can tell
people, ‘We have a president in the White House who still has a grandmother
living in a hut on the shores of Lake Victoria and has a sister who’s
half-Indonesian, married to a Chinese-Canadian,’ then they’re going to think that
he may have a better sense of what’s going on in our lives and in our
country,” the Nobel Laureate once mused. “And they’d be· right.”-Senator Obama to the New York Times Sunday
magazine, November 2007 ) :

A figure more legendary
than that of the Mahdi, the Awaited Saviour, has not been seen in the history
of mankind. The threads of the world events have woven many a fine design in
human life but the pattern of the Mahdi stands high above every other pattern.
He has been the vision of the visionaries in history. He has been the dream of
all the dreamers of the world. For the ultimate salvation of mankind he is the
Pole Star of hope on which the gaze of humanity is fixed… In this quest for the
truth about the Mahdi there is no distinction of any caste, creed, or country.
The quest is universal, exactly in the same way as the Mahdi himself is
universal. He stands resplendent high above the narrow walls in which humanity
is cut up and divided. He belongs to everybody. For all that and much more,
what exactly is the Mahdi? Surely that is the big question which the thinking
people all over the world would like to ask. ⁵

Indeed, just who is this “awaited one” that the
Islamic world is longing for, and what is it that he does that has them all in
such a state of anticipation? This chapter will attempt to thoroughly
answer this question primarily by citing various Islamic traditions and the
interpretations of Muslim scholars that study them. I would like to
encourage you to take the time to read each and every quote. It is in
these references that we find an articulation of one of the central beliefs and
passions of many of the 1.3 billion Muslims that we presently share the Earth
with. Those of us who desire a greater understanding of one of the
primary underlying spiritual factors affecting the world today should pay very
close attention…

Islam’s Messiah

In the simplest of terms, the Mahdi is Islam’s
Messiah, or Savior. While the actual terms “Messiah” and “Messianism”
have very clearly Judeo-Christian roots, University of Virginia Professor
Abdulaziz Abdulhussein Sachedina agrees that these terms are appropriately used
in an Islamic context when referring to the Mahdi. In his scholarly work
on the subject, Islamic Messianism, Sachedina elaborates thusly:

The term “messianism” in
the Islamic context is frequently used to translate the important concept of an
eschatological figure, the Mahdi, who as the foreordained leader “will rise” to
launch a great social transformation in order to restore and adjust all things
under divine guidance. The Islamic messiah, thus, embodies the
aspirations of his followers in the restoration of the purity of the Faith
which will bring true and uncorrupted guidance to all mankind, creating a just
social order and a world free from oppression in which the Islamic revelation
will be the norm for all nations. ⁶

Thus it is fair to say that the “rising” of the
Mahdi is to the majority of Muslims what the return of Jesus is to
Christians. While Christians await the return of Jesus the Messiah to
fulfill all of God’s prophetic promises to the people of God, Muslims await the
appearance of the Mahdi, to fulfill these purposes. Sheikh Kabbani
likewise identifies the Mahdi as Islam’s primary messiah figure:

Jews are waiting for the
Messiah, Christians are waiting for Jesus, and Muslims are waiting for both the
Mahdi and Jesus. All religions describe them as men coming to save the
world. ⁷

A Man From The Family Of Muhammad (MWL: Obama is the only USA president who was born a MUSLIM of the family of Muhammad)

The first and most often cited Islamic belief
with regard to the Mahdi is the tradition which states that the Mahdi will
descend from the family of Muhammad and will bear Muhammad’s name:

The world will not come
to pass until a man from among my family, whose name will be my name, rules
over the Arabs. ⁸

The Prophet said: The
Mahdi will be of my family, of the descendants of Fatimah [Muhammad’s
daughter]. ⁹

A Universal Leader For All Muslims (MWL: Obama is the first self declared USA President world Citizen instead of a USA citizen. · ”Obama, stated he is a citizen
of the world, (not what one calls an American citizen). He didn’t misspeak, for
he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the organization that
represents those who want globalism, nations without borders, a North American
Union, a Godless U.N. Charter that can be changed according to political whims
of unelected elite bureaucrats to replace the U.S. Constitution; a new,
universal currency to replace the dollar controlled by the central bankers of
Europe to include the Warburgs, Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Schiffs, Kuhn Loeb,
Salomon Brothers, those world money manipulating gangsters and their Bilderberg
friends.” http://www.newswithviews.com/Kress/joe32.htm )

Throughout the Islamic world today there is a
call for the restoration of the Islamic Caliphate. The Caliph (Khalifa)
in Islam may be viewed somewhat as the Pope of the Muslims. The Caliph is
viewed as the Vice-regent for Allah on the earth. It is important to
understand that when Muslims call for the restoration of the Caliphate, it is
ultimately the Mahdi that they are calling for. For the Mahdi is the
awaited final Caliph of Islam. As such, Muslims everywhere will be
obligated to follow the Mahdi.

If you see him, go and
give him your allegiance, even if you have to crawl over ice, because he is the
Vice-regent (Khalifa) of Allah, the Mahdi. ¹⁰

He will pave the way for
and establish the government of the family [or community] of Muhammad… Every
believer will be obligated to support him. ¹¹

The Ruler Of The World (MWL:
Obama is the first self declared USA President world Citizen instead of a USA citizen. OBAMA Re; American not a Christian Nation http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=67735 “I think that the right might worry a bit more about the dangers of
sectarianism. Whatever we once were, we’re no longer just a Christian nation;
we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu
nation, and a nation of nonbelievers,” Obama wrote in an e-mail to CBN
News senior national correspondent David Brody. “We should acknowledge
this and realize that when we’re formulating policies from the state house to
the Senate floor to the White House, we’ve got to work to translate our
reasoning into values that are accessible to every one of our citizens, not
just members of our own faith community,” wrote Obama.)

The Mahdi is believed to be a future Muslim
world leader who will not only rule over the Islamic world, but also the
non-Muslim world as well. The Mahdi is said to lead a world revolution
that will establish a new Islamic world order throughout the entire earth:

The Mahdi will establish
right and justice in the world and eliminate evil and corruption. He will
fight against the enemies of the Muslims who would be victorious. ¹²

He will reappear on the
appointed day, and then he will fight against the forces of evil, lead a world
revolution and set up a new world order based on justice, righteousness and
virtue…ultimately the righteous will take the world administration in their
hands and Islam will be victorious over all the religions. ¹³

He is the precursor of
the victory of the Truth and the fall of all tyrants. He heralds the end
of injustice and oppression and the beginning of the final rising of the sun of
Islam which will never again set and which will ensure happiness and the
elevation of mankind… The Mahdi is one of Allah’s clear signs which will soon
be made evident to everyone. ¹⁴

The Mahdi’s means and method of accomplishing
this world revolution will include multiple military campaigns or holy wars (jihad).

(MWL
Obama has expanded the USA military roles in wars around the globe
supporting MUSLIM causes. Iraq and Afghanistan are MUSLIM states and not
Democratic ones. The Iraq constitution provides for Shari law not civil
law.)

While some Muslims believe that most of the non-Muslims of the world will
convert to Islam peaceably during the reign of the Mahdi, most traditions
picture the non-Muslim world coming to Islam as a result of being conquered by
the Mahdi. Abduallrahman Kelani, author of The Last
Apocalypse, describes the many battles of the Mahdi:

al-Mahdi will receive a
pledge of allegiance as a caliph for Muslims. He will lead Muslims in many
battles ofjihad. His reign will be a caliphate that follows the
guidance of the Prophet. Many battles will ensue between Muslims and the
disbelievers during the Mahdi’s reign… ¹⁵

Even Harun Yahya, a moderate and very popular
Muslim author refers to the Mahdi’s invasion of numerous non-Muslim lands:

The Mahdi will invade
all the places between East and West. ¹⁶

The Army Of Black Flags

The Mahdi’s ascendancy to power is said to be
preceded by an army from the east who will be carrying black flags or banners
of war. Sheikh Kabbani states:

Hadith indicate that
black flags coming from the area of Khorasan will signify the appearance of the
Mahdi is nigh. Khorasan is in todays Iran, and some scholars have said
that this hadith means when the black flags appear from Central Asia, i.e. in
the direction of Khorasan, then the appearance of the Mahdi is imminent. ¹⁷

Another tradition states
that:

The Messenger of Allah
said: The black banners will come from the East and their hearts will be as
firm as iron. Whoever hears of them should join them and give allegiance,
even if it means crawling across snow. ¹⁸

In Islam there are two flags. One is white
and one is black. Written across both flags in Arabic are the words,
“There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his Messenger”. The white flag
is called Al-Liwaa and serves as the sign for the leader of
the Muslim army and is the flag of the Islamic State. The black flag is
called Ar-Raya and is used by the Muslim army. It is also
called the flag of jihad, and is carried into battle. One flag is
governmental and the other is a military flag. ¹⁹ When
Muhammad returned to his home city of Mecca after being exiled for eight years,
he returned as a conqueror. With him were ten thousand Muslim
soldiers. They carried with them black flags. On the flags was one
word written in Arabic:punishment. ²⁰

I was once talking to a group of young Muslim
men and asking them some questions. I asked them if the obvious superior
militaries of America and Israel compared to the militaries of any Islamic
nations were a source of difficulty for many Muslims. One of these men
then became very angry at my question and snapped out, “You Americans and
Zionists better get ready, because the black flags are coming!” At the
time, I had no idea what he was talking about. Later I learned the
meaning.

The Conquering Of Israel (MWL: Obama the messiah is joining with the army of the Muslim warriors)

Islamic tradition pictures the Mahdi as joining
with the army of Muslim warriors carrying black flags. The Mahdi will
then lead this army to Israel and re-conquer it for Islam. The Jews will
be slaughtered until very few remain and Jerusalem will become the location of
the Mahdi’s rule over the Earth.

Rasulullah [Muhammad]
said: “Armies carrying black flags will come from Khurasan. No power will
be able to stop them and they will finally reach Eela (Baitul Maqdas in
Jerusalem) where they will erect their flags.” ²¹

It is important to note here the reference above
to “Baitul Maqdas”. In Arabic this means “the holy house”.
This is referring to the Dome of the Rock Mosque and is located on the Temple
Mount in Jerusalem.

In a particularly venomous manner, Egyptian
authors, Muhammad ibn Izzat and Muhammd ‘Arif comment on the above tradition:

The Mahdi will be
victorious and eradicate those pigs and dogs and the idols of this time so that
there will once more be a caliphate based on prophethood as the hadith
states… Jerusalem will be the location of the rightly guided caliphate
and the center of Islamic rule, which will be headed by Imam al-Mahdi…That
will abolish the leadership of the Jews… and put an end to the domination of
the Satans who spit evil into people and cause corruption in the earth, making
them slaves of false idols and ruling the world by laws other than the Shari’a
[Islamic Law] of the Lord of the worlds. (Emphasis mine) ²²

There is a very famous tradition that is often
quoted throughout the Islamic world that speaks of the Mahdi’s military
campaign against Israel. The tradition is both sickening and very
sobering:

The Prophet said… The last hour would not come unless the
Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the
Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would
say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill
him…(Emphasis mine) ²³

The Miraculous Provider Who Will Be Loved By All

It is said that the Mahdi will have control over
the wind and the rain and the crops. Under the Mahdi’s rule, the world
will live in prosperity. Islamic tradition relates that Muhammad once
said:

In the last days of my
Ummah [universal Islamic community], the Mahdi will appear. Allah will
give him power over the wind and the rain and the earth will bring forth its
foliage. He will give away wealth profusely, flocks will be in abundance,
and the Ummah will be large and honored… ²⁴

In those years my
community will enjoy a time of happiness such as they have never experienced
before. Heaven will send rain upon them in torrents, the earth will not
withhold any of its plants, and wealth will be available to all. A man
will stand and say, “Give to me Mahdi!” and he will say, “Take.” ²⁵

As a result of the
numerous benefits that the Mahdi brings, it is said that all the inhabitants of
the Earth will be possessed with a deep love of him:

Allah will sow love of
him in the hearts of all people. ²⁶

Al Mahdi appears,
everyone only talks about Him, drinks the love of Him, and never talks about
anything other than Him. ²⁷

The Timing of The Mahdi’s Reign

While there is more than one tradition regarding
the nature and timing of the Mahdi’s ascendancy to power, there is one
particular hadith that places this event
at the time of a final peace agreement between the Arabs and the Romans
(“Romans” should be interpreted as referring to Christians, or more generally,
the West). Although this peace agreement is made with the “Romans”,
it is said to be mediated specifically through a Jew from the priestly lineage
of Aaron. The peace agreement will be
made for a period of seven years.

Rasulullah [Muhammad]
said: “There will be four peace agreements between you and the Romans
[Christians]. The fourth agreement will be mediated through a person who
will be from the progeny of Hadrat Haroon [Honorable Aaron – Moses’
brother] and will be upheld for seven years. (Emphasis mine)²⁸

It appears that the period of this seven year
peace agreement will likewise be the period of the Mahdi’s reign. While
there are a few traditions that specify that the Mahdi will reign on the earth
for as much as eight or possibly even nine years, most traditions state that
the time of his reign will be seven years. (MWL: OBAMA to get two full terms as president of USA?)

The Prophet said… He
will divide the property, and will govern the people by the Sunnah of their
Prophet and establish Islam on Earth. He will remain seven years,
then die, and the Muslims will pray over him. (Emphasis mine) ²⁹

The Prophet said: The
Mahdi… will fill the earth with equity and justice as it was filled with
oppression and tyranny, and he will rule for seven years. (Emphasis
mine) ³⁰

(MWL: Obama says he wants social justice around the world with property redistribution from the wealthy to the poor.)

Al-Mahdi, The Rider On A White Horse (MWL: could this be the “White House”?)

The Mahdi is believed to ride on a white
horse. Whether or not this is symbolic or literal is hard to say. Quite
interestingly, this tradition is based on the Muslim interpretation of
Christian Scriptures. Despite the fact that Muslims view the Bible as
having been changed and corrupted by Jews and Christians, they still claim to
believe that some portions of the “original” inspired books are still to be
found within the “corrupted” Bible. As such there exists a tradition
within Islamic scholarship that seeks to extract those portions of the Bible
that Muslims feel may be untainted by the corrupting influence of Jews and
Christians. These Judeo-Christian traditions are called by Muslims, isra’iliyyat.
One such transmitter of biblical traditions is Muslim scholar Ka’b
al-Ahbar. He is viewed among Muslims as a trustworthy transmitter of
Hadith as well as isra’iliyyat. ³¹Ka’b al-Ahbar is supported in
his view that this description of the rider on the white horse as found in the
Book of Revelation is indeed the Mahdi by two well known Egyptian authors,
Muhammad Ibn ‘Izzat and Muhammad ‘Arif in their book Al Mahdi and the
End of Time. ‘Izzat and Arif quote Ka’b al Ahbar as saying:

I find the Mahdi
recorded in the books of the Prophets… For instance, the Book of Revelation
says: “And I saw and behold a white horse. He that sat on him…went forth
conquering and to conquer.” ³²

‘Izzat and ‘Arif then go on to say:

It is clear that this
man is the Mahdi who will ride the white horse and judge by the Qur’an (with
justice) and with whom will be men with marks of prostration on their foreheads
[Marks on their foreheads from bowing in prayer with their head to the ground
five times daily]. ³³

It is said by some that it was for this reason
that Saddam Hussein had numerous murals painted all over Baghdad portraying
himself as a Muslim Knight on a white horse with sword drawn doing valiant
battle against the infidels. ³⁴

Al-Mahdi the Miraculous Archaeologist

In one final very interesting series of
traditions regarding the Mahdi we find that he is said to produce some
previously undiscovered Bible scrolls and even the Ark of the Covenant:

Ka’b al-Ahbar says, “He
will be called ‘Mahdi” because he will guide (yahdi) to something hidden
and will bring out the Torah and Gospel from a town called Antioch.” ³⁵

As-Suyuti mentioned
in al-Hawi that the messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him
and grant him peace, said, “he is called the Mahdi because he will guide the
people to a mountain in Syria from which he will bring out the volumes of the
Torah to refute the Jews. At the hands of the Mahdi the Ark of the
Covenant will be brought forth from the Lake of Tiberias and taken and placed
in Jerusalem.” ³⁶

Ad-Dani said that he is
called the Mahdi because he will be guided to a mountain in Syria from which he
will bring forth the volumes of the Torah with which to argue against the Jews
and at his hands a group of them will become Muslim. ³⁷

Apparently, the purpose of finding these “lost”
portions of the Old and New Testaments as well as the Ark of the Covenant is to
help the Mahdi win converts from both Christianity and Judaism prior to
“eradicating” the remainder who do not convert to Islam. We will discuss
this aspect of Islamic tradition further in later chapters.

Summary

After reviewing the various Islamic traditions
and opinions of the Muslim scholars, let’s now review and walk through a list
of what we have learned about the person and the mission of the Mahdi as he
exists in the minds of many of the 1.3 billion Muslims worldwide.

The Mahdi is Islam’s primary messiah figure.

He will be a descendant of Muhammad and will bear
Muhammad’s name (Muhammad bin Abdullah).

He will be a very devout Muslim.

He will be an unparalleled spiritual, political and
military world leader.

He will emerge after a period of great turmoil and
suffering upon the earth.

He will establish justice and righteousness throughout
the world and eradicate tyranny and oppression.

He will be the Caliph and Imam (vice-regent and leader)
of Muslims worldwide

He will lead a world revolution and establish a new
world order.

He will lead military action against all those who
oppose him.

He will invade many countries.

He will make a seven year peace treaty with a Jew of
priestly lineage.

He will conquer Israel for Islam and lead the “faithful
Muslims” in a final slaughter/battle against Jews.

He will establish the new Islamic world headquarters
from Jerusalem.

He will rule for seven years (possibly as much as eight
or nine).

He will cause Islam to be the only religion practiced
on the earth.

He will appear riding a white horse (possibly
symbolic).

He will discover some previously undiscovered biblical
manuscripts that he will use to argue with the Jews and cause some Jews to
convert to Islam.

He will also re-discover the Ark of the Covenant from
the Sea of Galilee, which he will bring to Jerusalem.

He will have supernatural power from Allah over the
wind and the rain and crops.

He will posses and distribute enormous amounts of
wealth.

He will be loved by all the people of the earth.

Notes:

Shaykh
Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, The Approach of Armageddon? An Islamic
Perspective (Canada, Supreme Muslim Council of America, 2003), p.
228

Ibn
Kathir, The Signs Before the Day of Judgement (London,
Dar Al-Taqwa, 1991), p. 18

Muhammad
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Izzat
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Muslim Book 041, Number 6985

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Sunan
Abu Dawud, Book 36, Number 4273, Narrated by Umm Salamah, Ummul
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Sunan
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Izzat
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ibid.
p. 16